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... appear to a man rather insufficient grounds . But going arithmetically to work , it will be a tole- rably - sized grief which produces as much pain as a prolonged , stinging tooth - ache ; and six - and - thirty hours , or upwards ...
... appear to a man rather insufficient grounds . But going arithmetically to work , it will be a tole- rably - sized grief which produces as much pain as a prolonged , stinging tooth - ache ; and six - and - thirty hours , or upwards ...
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... appear- ed in the hot summer nights , a sufficiency . The boarders were principally young men , most of them clerks in drygood stores , and the conversation gene- rally turned upon the quantity of sales they had severally effected in ...
... appear- ed in the hot summer nights , a sufficiency . The boarders were principally young men , most of them clerks in drygood stores , and the conversation gene- rally turned upon the quantity of sales they had severally effected in ...
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... appears a very unodoriferous and anti - poetical substance . To rebut the latter charge it may be urged that Byron , the greatest poet of the age , was partial to it ; but it must be remem- bered that Byron used it only as a medicine an ...
... appears a very unodoriferous and anti - poetical substance . To rebut the latter charge it may be urged that Byron , the greatest poet of the age , was partial to it ; but it must be remem- bered that Byron used it only as a medicine an ...
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... , puny creatures are led away by the desire to appear older than they are , Poor children ! Why do not their parents whip them and put them to bed early for doing such naughty , filthy tricks ? Solomon says , " 86 TOBACCO .
... , puny creatures are led away by the desire to appear older than they are , Poor children ! Why do not their parents whip them and put them to bed early for doing such naughty , filthy tricks ? Solomon says , " 86 TOBACCO .
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... appears alike unfit for the stage through which she has just passed , or the one on which she is about to enter . Her intellectual faculties and conversation are in an equally uncer- tain state ; and the person who addresses her is sore ...
... appears alike unfit for the stage through which she has just passed , or the one on which she is about to enter . Her intellectual faculties and conversation are in an equally uncer- tain state ; and the person who addresses her is sore ...
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Página 242 - And Ardennes waves above them her green leaves, Dewy with nature's tear-drops as they pass, Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave, - alas! Ere evening to be trodden like the grass...
Página 27 - If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions : I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Página 190 - I'd have you do it ever : when you sing, I'd have you buy and sell so ; so give alms ; Pray so ; and for the ordering your affairs, To sing them too. When you do dance, I wish you A wave o' the sea, that you might ever do Nothing but that ; move still, still so, and own No other function.
Página 235 - Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood, Land of my sires! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band, That knits me to thy rugged strand!
Página 108 - I have heard That guilty creatures, sitting at a play, Have by the very cunning of the scene Been struck so to the soul that presently They have proclaim'd their malefactions; For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ.
Página 243 - The mountain shadows on her breast Were neither broken nor at rest ; In bright uncertainty they lie, Like future joys to Fancy's eye.
Página 233 - Time rolls his ceaseless course. The race of yore, Who danced our infancy upon their knee, And told our marvelling boyhood legends store, Of their strange ventures happ'd by land or sea, How are they blotted from the things that be...
Página 70 - ... the birds of the air, the beasts of the field, and the inhabitants of the water, that they might be borne to her wherever hid.
Página 15 - OFT in the stilly night, Ere Slumber's chain has bound me, Fond Memory brings the light Of other days around me; The smiles, the tears, Of boyhood's years, The words of love then spoken; The eyes that shone, Now dimmed and gone, The cheerful hearts now broken ! Thus, in the stilly night, Ere Slumber's chain has bound me, Sad Memory brings the light Of other days around me.
Página 141 - There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats, For I am arm'd so strong in honesty, That they pass by me as the idle wind, Which I respect not.